Box or package.



Painted Aug. 6, I90l.

G. HESS & J. L. CLABK.

BOX 08 PACKAGE. (Application filed Apr. 10, 1901.)

(In Modal.)

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UNITED STATES GILBERT HESS AND JESSE L.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLARK, OF ASHLAND, OHIO.

Box OR PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,747, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed April 10 1901.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GILBERT HESS and JESSE L. CLARK, citizens of the United States, residing at Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes or Packages, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a package for a poultry medical compound, and is designed to provide a hermetically-sealed odorless box, so as to prevent from the sealed box the givingoff of the offensive odor of the material forming the principal ingredient of the compound.

In carrying out our invention we take a sheet of pasteboard and 'coat it on one side with hot paraffin to close the pores, after which the board is allowed to dry partially but not wholly, and then a second applica tion of paraffin is made. The box made up from this board provides a box paraffined throughout its interior, including the extending flaps, and this is hermetically sealed, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawing the figure shows the box in perspective with both ends open.

We first paraffin one side of the pasteboard or other material of which the box is made by the application of two coats of paraffin and. then cut out from the material thus prepared the blank of which the box is made up, this blank being adapted to make a box of rectangular shape and having two sets of flaps to be folded in one upon the other. The two flaps a, paraffined on their inner faces, are

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first folded in to form the bottom of the pack age, and to the upper surface is added a coating of glue. We then press down one of the sideflaps b, then add to the top of the flap b 0 a coating of glue, and press down upon this the outside fiap c and place the box in a vise until the glue has set. Before sealing the last flap c we remove a part of the parafiin,

as shown at d, so that it is caused to adhere 5 more firmly to the glue-coated surface of the flap b. The box is filled by machinery, and we have found that without removing the paraffin from a part of the flap, as described,

the pressure exerted by the filling-machine of the other flaps coated with paraffin so that there will be paraffin between the meeting faces of the flaps, one of said flaps having a portion free from parafiin, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GILBERT HESS. JESSE L. CLARK.

Witnesses:

W. L. CoRDELL, JNo. L. PLANK. 

